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Thursday, April 24, 2008

Taman Selera Upgrade & Erosion

Yesterday, while i was waiting for a seminar to start at Marriott hotel, i went to Taman Selera since, i was 1 hour early. Actually, it supposed to start at 1.30pm but changed to 2.00pm. It's been long time that i went there so, i went to check things out. I heard there are going to have an upgrade there but, i was socked to see what happend there.There are upgrading the walk paths. But look the playground is just behind the mountain of soil. The playground is surrounded by it.
The walk path going to the public toilets. It's like a war zone in this park! The park looks so messy.
Look how near is the wave to the shore. It looked like the beach is almost gone and reaching the barrier. The barrier started to crack and tilted sideways, it looks like it is going to crumble. It used to have many sands. No Sands! = No Beach!
Further up i saw many trees beside the walk path cum barrier showing out their roots. It looks like the tree is going to fall down soon. When it falls, i think it will bring the whole walk path down with it.

I wonder if the sea level keeps rising all the upgrade is meaningless coz, there won't be any beach to see and all the walk path will be gone too, swallowed by the sea. If tsunami ever happens here we are doomed.

Wave erosion are made with the power of oceanic waves, large storm waves can produce 2000 pounds of pressure per square foot. The pure energy of waves along with the chemical content of the water is what erodes the rock of the coastline. Erosion of sand is much easier for the waves and sometimes, there's an annual cycle where sand is removed from a beach during one season, only to be returned by waves in another.

Previous related link my friend posted at http://www.miriresortcity.com/blog/ian/sinking_miri

1 comment:

HJ said...

Well, there was an article about sinking Miri a while back.. so all that removal of paths is to lighten Miri a bit so it wouldn't sink? :D

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